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The Raw, Naked, Beating Heart Underneath: Talks with Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Bob-Waksberg, creator of 'BoJack Horseman,' examines love in its various forms in his first collection, 'Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory' (Knopf, May).
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A Perfect Stranger: Talks with Cambria Brockman
Brockman’s debut, 'Tell Me Everything' (Ballantine, July), features Malin Ahlberg, a smart and popular college student with manipulative tendencies and a troubled past.
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Behind the Scenes: 'Music for Mister Moon'
Caldecott Medalist Erin Stead gives us a visual tour of her illustration process for her new picture book with husband Philip Stead.
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Q & A with Rebecca Solnit
PW spoke with historian, activist, and author Rebecca Solnit about her children's debut, 'Cinderella Liberator,' a feminist fairy tale retelling.
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A Near-Future History Lesson: PW Talks with Agnes Gomillion
In 'The Record Keeper' (Titan, June), set in a racially stratified near-future America, a woman coopted into the repression of her people pivots to leading a rebellion.
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The Business of Eating: PW Talks with Ed Levine
In 'Serious Eater' (Portfolio, June), food writer and entrepreneur Levine shares his story of launching 'Serious Eats.'
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A Tale of Three Charleses: PW Talks with Tim Mason
In 'The Darwin Affair' (Alongquin, June), Mason imagines a connection between an attempt on Queen Victoria’s life and Charles Darwin’s 'On the Origin of Species.'
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Q & A with Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox
Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox discuss their debut picture book, 'Llama Destroys the World,' which features a llama whose appetite for cake has serious repercussions for the fate of the universe.
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Q & A with Hafsah Faizal
PW spoke with Hafsah Faizal about the inspiration behind 'We Hunt the Flame,' and her journey from blogger to influencer to debut author after finding an agent via #DVPit.
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Rules of the Game: PW Talks with James Trefil
In 'Imagined Life' (Smithsonian, Sept.), science writer Trefil and his coauthor, Michael Summers, explore the possibilities awaiting humanity in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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An Inconceivable Friendship: PW Talks with Daniela Petrova
In Petrova’s debut, 'Her Daughter’s Mother' (Putnam, June), pregnant Lana Stone befriends her anonymous egg donor, who suddenly vanishes.
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In Conversation: Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner
We asked authors Audrey Coulthurst and Paula Garner to interview each other about their friendship, which evolved from an online connection, and their new novel, 'Starworld.'
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Q & A with Ann Patchett
A chance meeting with illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser, an unexpected result in a Pennsylvania congressional race, and a Fleetwood Mac hit from 1975 are all part of the backstory for novelist Ann Patchett's debut children's book, 'Lambslide.'
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Q & A with Lynn Curlee
Artist and author Lynn Curlee spoke with PW about his latest book, 'The Great Nijinsky,' which features his acrylic paintings of the acclaimed dancer as well as other members of the Ballets Russes.
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A Deadly Anniversary: PW Talks with Tom O’Neill
In 'Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties' (Little, Brown, June), O’Neill challenges the accepted narrative about the Tate/LaBianca murders 50 years ago.
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Order a Case of Kleenex and Write the Goddamn Book: PW Talks with Walt Odets
Odets’s 'Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June) takes an expansive, heartfelt look at gay male identity and experience.
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Home in South Africa: PW Talks with Bianca Marais
Marais’s second novel, 'If You Want to Make God Laugh' (Putnam, July), focuses on the struggles of three women whose lives connect in surprising ways in newly postapartheid South Africa.
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The Death of a President: PW Talks with Lawrence Goldstone
In 'Assassin of Shadows' (Pegasus Crime), Goldstone casts the murder of President McKinley in a new light.
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'Wonder and Excitement': PW Talks with Seymour Simon
In ‘Destination: Moon,’ Simon, the author of more than 300 books for young readers, looks at the science and technology that made the lunar landing possible.
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Hidden Figures No More: PW talks with Nancy Atkinson
Atkinson, author of ‘Eight Years to the Moon,’ discusses the legacy of Apollo 11.